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NYC National Debt Clock runs out of digits

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NYC National Debt Clock runs out of digits

From Associated Press
October 08, 2008 9:08 PM EDT

NEW YORK - In a sign of the times, the National Debt Clock in New York City has run out of digits to record the growing figure.

As a short-term fix, the digital dollar sign on the billboard-style clock near Times Square has been switched to a figure - the "1" in $10 trillion. It's marking the federal government's current debt at about $10.2 trillion.

The Durst Organization says it plans to update the sign next year by adding two digits. That will make it capable of tracking debt up to a quadrillion dollars.

The late Manhattan real estate developer Seymour Durst put the sign up in 1989 to call attention to what was then a $2.7 trillion debt.
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I remember watching the Jerry Lewis telethons as a kid, and the first year that Jerry hit $10 million, there wasn't a digit for it on the tote board, so he got some paint and painted the "1" on, and the crowd cheered...

...this doesn't feel quite the same.
 
OOOOoooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.....

THAT'S the debt board.

I always thought it was that weird asshole-looking thing in Union Square. Seemed more appropriate. Constantly changing numbers next to a black hole that occasionally spits fire. Yeah, that about sounds like our national debt alright.
 
This thing.

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Don't cry for me Argentina
The truth is I never left you
All through my wild days
My mad existence
I kept my promise
Don't keep your distance
 
Eggs, Eggs, Eggs...
I love musicals.
If I ever get to New York
will you go with me to a musical?
Or even just a really good play on Broadway?
 
Godspell is okay but, if going in that timeframe and genre, I'd like to see Jesus Christ Superstar again. I saw it off Broadway several years back. Even though JCS is dated, it is still an awesome musical. "Pilate's Dream" is still one of my favorites:

I dreamed I met a Galilean;
A most amazing man.
He had that look you very rarely find:
The haunting, hunted kind.
I asked him to say what had happened,
How it all began.
I asked again, he never said a word.
As if he hadn't heard.
And next, the room was full of wild and angry men.
They seemed to hate this man.
They fell on him, and then
Disappeared again.
Then I saw thousands of millions
Crying for this man.
And then I heard them mentioning my name,
And leaving me the blame.

This guy does a really good job of the song:
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I think he misses the feeling, the intent of the song.

This guy isn't as smooth but "he like sing" - just close your eyes and don't watch him sing:

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Personally, I hear it as a violin solo and think I will rescore it to make it so.
 
I've never been able to sit through it. I don't care for the clownish makeup and the music isn't very interesting.

Interesting that now the musical is being viewed in the negative context as "evangelical." At the time it was written, though, it was a "Jesus Freak" and "Hippie" type musical and overall considered positive. What is interesting is how over the last 30 years or so a large faction of American society has come to hate God, Jesus and Christians. These same people, though, are all to eager to protect the religious freedoms of anyone who is not Christian. Hmmm...
 
All religions are inherently evil.

Well, except those weird pacifist Asian ones. Those people are harmless.
 
I don't think religions are inherently evil. I think that manipulative people warp religion for their own benefit. Is sad, really. It would be nice to be able to share one's deepest feelings regarding one's spiritual beliefs - what one feels in the core of one's being to be true - with others who feel the same way and not be taken advantage of.
 
Godspell is not evangelical. It tells the story of the gospel of St. Mathew in musical form.

I'm a recovering Catholic who usually throws rocks at religious people, and I don't find the show offensive or threatening.

Religion can be dangerous, but sometimes it's only dangerous if you lend it power with your own illogical hate/fear. Godspell by itself just isn't that scary.
 
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